Tianyuan Hotel is where Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing are staying today. It is also a hotel that Xu Tongdao found online before arriving.
There is nothing special about this hotel.
The reason why he found such a hotel online was mainly because he found it on an online map, which was very close to a food street in Wudu.
As one of the municipalities directly under the Central Government, Wudu has more than one food street.
The Tianyuan Hotel he chose happened to be not far from one of the food streets.
In this food street, there are two hot pot restaurants with good reputations.
As for...how did he, who had never been to Fog City in his previous life, know that there were two good hot pot restaurants on this food street?
The answer is simple - he learned it all from the Internet.
As the owner of 8 Internet cafes under his name, it may be inconvenient for Mr. Xu to do other things, but surfing the Internet... Haha, I won’t go into details.
Anyway, before he came to Fog City this time, he collected a lot of information related to this trip on the Internet.
Among them, some of the most critical information is - what are the time-honored and delicious hot pot restaurants in Wudu.
Speaking of this issue, I have to thank netizens these days for being really enthusiastic.
Tongdao Xu posted several inquiries on several forums, for free. As a result, many enthusiastic netizens responded to him.
So, Xu, who had never been to Wudu, knew the names of dozens of hot pot restaurants in Wudu.
They are all hot pot restaurants that enthusiastic netizens think are delicious.
Tongdao Xu plans to come here this time, taste all the dozens of hot pot restaurants, and then look for opportunities to purchase the technology of several of them.
Yes!
This time he doesn’t just plan to buy the technology of one of them, but the technology of several!
What he envisioned was to learn from the strengths of many other hot pot restaurants, absorb the technical advantages of several hot pot restaurants, and summarize a hot pot restaurant technology unique to him, Tongdao Xu.
If he didn't currently have insufficient funds, he would even want to acquire more than ten hot pot technology companies.
After getting the technical formulas of these hot pot restaurants, after going back, based on these formulas, a little bit of experimentation, a little bit of summary, and induction, you will naturally be able to summarize a good hot pot recipe.
He has confidence in this.
If he could really buy the recipes from several hot pot restaurants, his method would be really feasible.
Just like automotive technology!
If there is a domestic automobile company that can purchase the core technologies of several foreign automobiles, then come back and summarize it by yourself, and come up with a set of automobile technologies that you can use, is it difficult?
Comrade Xu thought it was not difficult.
Moreover, he felt that it would be a great benefit for him to come to Wudu to buy hot pot technology.
——That is, limited by the development of the times and the accumulation of capital, there are currently very few hot pot restaurants in Wudu that have embarked on a national chain model.
Those national chain hot pot restaurants that he remembered, so far...he has basically not seen them in Shuidiao City.
This is a big plus for him when he comes to Wudu to buy hot pot skills this time!
While most of the hot pot restaurants here are still small in scale, not strong enough, and not ambitious enough, there is definitely a possibility of success by purchasing their secret recipes.
Give me an example!
Before his rebirth, Haidilao had a market value of HK$300 to 400 billion. If you want to buy Haidilao's core technology with such a high market value, how much do you think it would cost to buy it? In other words, it is possible for Haidilao to do so.
Will it sell its core technology?
But what if it was when Haidilao was just born?
Or what about a time when it has been around for a few years, but is still just a small store, has not yet expanded, and has no ability to expand?
At that time, if you spent money to buy its core technology, would it be possible to buy it?
Give another example!
QQ, it is said that its owner wanted to sell it for one million, but couldn't find a buyer. Out of helplessness, its owner could only grit his teeth and operate it on his own, and continue to work on this money-losing product. As a result,
…It exceeded everyone’s expectations, expanded more and more, and more than ten years later, expanded into a penguin empire.
It has expanded into a penguin empire. Will its owner still sell it?
Can anyone else afford it?
There are too many similar examples.
All we can say is: any behemoth, before it expands, is very small and its value is not high. If you have money, you can buy it yourself.
…
Settled down at Tianyuan Hotel.
At noon that day, Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing went to the nearby food street together and found a hot pot restaurant called Liu Yishou.
When they entered the door, they saw that the business in the store was... good or bad, the occupancy rate was about 40 to 50%.
Considering that it is noon now, the business of the hot pot restaurant may not get better until the evening, so the attendance rate of 40 to 50% at noon should be considered not bad.
The store is not big.
There are not many diners.
Xu Tongdao and Zheng Qing found a table in the corner, ordered a mandarin duck pot, and ordered some hot dishes. While waiting for the bottom of the pot and hot dishes to be served, they both observed the situation in the store.
Tongdao Xu noticed that this store was quite new, it seemed that it was only opened this year.
He carefully recalled the information he had read online and remembered that this store seemed to have only opened this year, but an enthusiastic netizen said that the store tasted good.
I hope this enthusiastic netizen is not the owner of this store, or a relative or friend of the owner.
Otherwise, their money for the hot pot meal may have been wasted.
"Xiaodao, look! Those people didn't order Yuanyang Hotpot, but we ordered Yuanyang Hotpot. Hey, tell me, as soon as our Yuanyang Hotpot is served, will everyone here know that we are not locals?
Tongdao Xu looked at him, then at the hot pot soup bases on the tables of the diners in the hall, and found that, as Zheng Qing said, they were all red soup bases. In the endlessly churning red soup, there were red strands.
The peppers are so densely packed that from a visual perspective, they are more like pots of peppers than pots of endlessly churning soup.
It’s so scary!
Do people here come here to eat hot pot? Or do they come to eat hot pepper under the guise of eating hot pot?
Tongdao Xu swallowed unconsciously.
Sweat immediately broke out on my forehead, and my scalp felt numb at the same time.
Although before coming to Wudu, he knew that people here generally can eat spicy food, and they can eat spicy food very well.
However, his imagination was limited after all, and he never imagined that the red peppers cooked by the root in their waterfowl cooking were cooked by the pot here.
The surface of the pots of hot pot soup is actually covered with bright red peppers. If these people finish the hot pot, won’t they get acne tomorrow? Can’t chrysanthemums breathe fire?
How do they manage to eat spicy food so much since childhood and still stay healthy?
At this moment, Xu Tongdao decided that he must stay away from hot girls in this life, at least not marry hot girls, he was afraid.